My Little Monster
She told me to write 10 things I liked about myself. I had two weeks. My first response was a giggle. The idea felt gooey and sentimental, like giving myself a hug. Really? Ten things I like about...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Answering in the Negative: What Suffering Isn’t?
Over at CNN’s religion blog, Timothy Keller wrote a bit about the age-old problem of pain and suffering: what do we conclude about God when we observe suffering for some people and not for others? He...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doubt, Belief, and Wonder: My Thoughts on God
Over at Eidos, my former professor and current friend John Mark Reynolds wrote a bit about the term ‘doubt.’ The word and concept hasn’t been far from my mind in the last few years, especially as I’ve...
View Article“Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History”: A Rant
I have a condition. Whenever I see one particular bumper-sticker, my skin starts to crawl. My lips and fingers itch and ache to burst with rational objection. I may need a doctor’s note to excuse me...
View ArticleFun With Logic
This post could also be titled Boring The Audience To Death, or perhaps How To Lose Readers In 15 Seconds Or Less. So, here is my brief apologetic for the worthiness of this post. First, this is kind...
View ArticleClik here to view.
His Name Is Alex
On my way to youth group on Wednesday night, I stopped at Rite Aid for a soda. As I walked across the parking lot, I noticed a young woman talking to a man leaning against the side of the building. I...
View ArticleThe End Of Abortion
Evangelical Christians have lost gay marriage. This is my humble yet controversial opinion. I could be wrong, I’m no prophet, but when the social conservatives are also the party of unyielding...
View ArticleCause and Effect
A while ago, a good friend of mine who was struggling with agnosticism and came to me with a question about Christianity. Some people, he said, claimed that Christianity’s “morality” wasn’t truly moral...
View Article#FirstWorldProblems
I hate it when I check my food order after I pull out of the drive through, and I have to walk inside to ask them to fix it. How does that complaint strike you? Mildly amusing? Ironic? Or are you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Are You Persecuted?
As Christians, we expect to be persecuted. Our expectation for hardships in this life comes directly from the words of Jesus, who told us that people would hate us for his name’s sake (Matthew 10:22,...
View Article“Who Sez?” The Place of God in Moral Philosophy
On Tuesday, Dennis Prager made a comment on his radio program that without dogma (specifically religious dogma) there can be no rational argument against selfishness and cruelty. A young man called...
View ArticleWas C.S. Lewis A Calvinist?
In a previous post, I mentioned in passing that J.R.R. Tolkien, though a devout Roman Catholic, filled his works with a distinctly Reformed or Calvinistic attitude toward fate and free will. If you...
View ArticleThe End of the Semester and the Horror of Free Time
It’s that time. The end of semester. A time of cookies and coffee and rest and parties and papers. Time for cozy pajamas and creating lists of all the books I’ve wanted to read for the last few months,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do I Want a Theologian or Philosopher?
When I was at Biola University, a conservative evangelical Bible college including the Talbot School of Theology, one of my anthropology professors talked about how Talbot professors served to screen...
View ArticleIn Defense Of The Pope
I am a Protestant. Not only a Protestant, but an evangelical. And not only an evangelical, but a Calvinist. In short, I have no love for the Papacy. I do not believe that the Pope is the Vicar of...
View ArticleObjective Beauty: An End to the Pepsi Challenge
Chocolate ice cream is objectively better than vanilla. Coke is obviously superior to Pepsi. Snickers is the best candy bar. Most people would consider these statements a mere opinion or preference,...
View ArticleArguing Against an Invalid Viewpoint
Today, as always, Christians find themselves in head to head disputes over issues they cannot compromise. No matter what creative thinking either side might apply, there are things they cannot and will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Body Modification and Ethics: A Helpful Framework
If you aren’t reading Mere-O Notes, you really ought to be. Perhaps it is presumptuous to use an ‘ought’ so early in a discussion of ethics, but so be it. Really, go check it out. It is some of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are Dolphins Persons?
India has banned holding dolphins captive for entertainment purposes. The act doesn’t concern me, at this point; I’m unsure how to tease out our relationship with creation, especially in terms of...
View ArticleJust Let Them Think You’re Stupid: Choosing Humility
By a quirk of our schooling, report cards and grades catechize us into perfect certainty of (at least) one thoroughly false lesson: that our ability to demonstrate understanding of something is more...
View Article
